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Summary: Use shadows in your pastel drawing to create dimension. Learn how to draw dimensional shadows with tips from a professional artist in this free instructional art video.
Dan'L Terry is a nationally award-winning artist/designer. His art has been exhibited in national juried shows and museums, on the covers of books and magazines, and in feature films,...read more
"Drawn in with a lighter green, some of these stems for the flowers. And, as I look at the stems, I see there's lighter value of green, and they have these little, these little sub-flower units, and that looks o.k., but it's not really what we want. It doesn't have any believability because the stems are rounded, and in order to create that roundness, we need to have a shadow edge on the bottom. In order for it to believe, to be believable, as a rounded form. Shadows and light, shadows and light."